Collapse vs Syncope - What's the difference?
collapse | syncope |
To fall down suddenly; to cave in
* Maunder
To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely
To fold compactly
(cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession
To cause something to collapse.
To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint
The act of collapsing
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Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset)
A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
* 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
(prosody, phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.
A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
As nouns the difference between collapse and syncope
is that collapse is the act of collapsing while syncope is a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.As a verb collapse
is to fall down suddenly; to cave in.collapse
English
(wikipedia collapse)Verb
(collaps)- A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
- Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse .
- Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving.
- The exhausted singer collapsed onstage and had to be taken to the hospital.
Derived terms
* collapsibleNoun
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Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----syncope
English
(wikipedia syncope)Noun
(en noun)- the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.